DeepaRaya Gathering

It's the day we have all been waiting for *drum rolls* ... our DeepaRaya gathering day! Most of us have been long waiting for this day to come. Now why is that? Well it's because it has been forever since most of us had NASI LEMAK! Yes ladies and gentleman, it is possible to have our traditional favourite nasi lemak here in Lawrence Kansas. But also other than that, it has been a while since the MSA have come together for a potluck.

 

So officially, we held our DeepaRaya gathering on Sunday, 12th October 2014 from 7.00 P.M. until 12.00 A.M. at the Meadowbrook Apartments clubhouse. It was certainly a night to remember! Almost everybody brought a little something of Malaysia to the gathering.

 

Here are some pictures of the mouth-watering Malaysian dishes of the night! Just to name a few, we had nasi lemak, ayam kari, mee kari, ayam masak madu, kuey teow, sayur kubis telur, ketupat. Just when you thought being in a campus town would seclude you from any key ingredients to make a fine dish that reminds you of home, guess again ;-)

 

 

We were more than happy to welcome friends and also alumni's with open arms that night. It's true when they say the more the merrier. I think we had more or less 30 people who joined us. Here are some pictures of their happy faces! :-)

 

Of course, what would the night be if we didn't have games to play. Our friend, Ben, brought over his Ultimate Werewolf card deck. For those who have played the Mafia Game, it's almost similar to it. But as for those who never heard of neither those games before, well it kinda goes like this;

There will be a moderator who narrates the game, the moderator shuffles the card deck and hands one card to each person playing, everyone will have a look at the card and not show it to anyone else. The card that is picked is the character that the person plays. The moderator then begins the game. It is played through day and night rounds until the Werewolf has been eliminated.

I could go on and explain specifically how the game goes but I think that would take me another whole post, so for those who are really keen to know, here is a link :- http://www.brenbarn.net/werewolf/rules.html .

Here is Ben constantly repeating himself trying to explain the game to everyone. Even though it was confusing at first, everyone soon got the hang of it and had such a great time!

 

Everyone was just having such a good time that not most of us noticed it was already midnight. Just when we were in the midst of a hilarious time trying to debate who to kill off in the game, the guard came by to close the clubhouse since it was pretty late. We all still wanted to continue the game, so we headed to our president's apartment and took it from there.

Playing the game might be fun but it's the conversation after the game that is the best part! Finding who killed who, who saved who, who tried to kill who, who blamed who.

 

It was just an amazing ending to an even more amazing night! Thank you to all the organizers of the gathering for making this happen and hope everyone had a wonderful DeepaRaya!